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Paragraph 4.5 Electrical safetyF1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that the electrical installation does not–

(a)

threaten the health and safety of the people in, and around, the building; and

(b)

become a source of fire.

Limitation

This standard does not apply to an electrical installation–

(a)

serving a building or any part of a building to which the Mines and Quarries Act 1954 F2 or the Factories Act 1961 F3 applies; or

(b)

forming part of the works of an undertaker to which regulations for the supply and distribution of electricity made under the Electricity Act 1989 F4 apply.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Schs. 1-6 substituted (1.5.2007) by The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/534), regs. 1, 2(c), sch. (with regs. 3, 4)

F2

1954 c. 70, as extended by the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969 (c. 10), and the Mines Management Act 1971 (c. 20) and as amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).

F3

1961 c. 34.

F4

1989 c. 29.